Functional Health
Root-cause care designed to uncover what's driving your symptoms and build a personalized path toward better health, performance, and longevity.
Functional Health, in detail
Functional medicine at this level is a way of reasoning clinically, not a category of testing. We read your history, your physiology and your biomarkers against each other, so what gets treated is the mechanism producing your symptoms. Testing sets the starting position; what changes it is food built to your metabolic profile, training prescribed to your capacity, sleep corrected, targeted supplements, and medication where it is warranted.
This is for you if you are carrying fatigue, metabolic problems, hormonal change, digestive symptoms, or an autoimmune diagnosis nobody ever explained, and equally if you are performing well and want the physiology underneath it improved rather than merely watched. What it asks of you is action: your food, training and sleep do most of the work. If your case is acute or belongs with a specialist, you will hear that before you commit to anything.
You start with a fifteen-minute consultation with Dr. Wilson or Dr. Cole to establish whether this fits. Your initial assessment covers your history, your previous workups and your family risk, and your testing is designed from that: cardiometabolic markers, full thyroid function, cortisol across the day, hormone status, and GI testing including SIBO breath testing and stool analysis where your history warrants it. Results become a written protocol with defined targets.
Sleep, energy and mood often shift within weeks. Metabolic and hormonal markers move over months. Gastrointestinal work runs the longest: clearing an overgrowth, repairing the barrier and reintroducing foods in a structured sequence takes months, and each stage has to be completed before the next is worth starting. You are given that timeline at the outset, and retesting is scheduled for the point at which a marker can genuinely have moved.
Your care plan covers consultation time, interpreting your results, designing your protocol, and the ongoing decisions that keep it current, which is the clinician work. Diagnostics and supplements are arranged separately, and nothing is ordered without a reason you approve first. Care runs in Overland Park or by telehealth across Kansas and Missouri.
Common questions
The ones we are asked most about Functional Health.
Most of it sells you a panel and a supplement protocol. Here the testing is one input, and the plan runs across nutrition, training, recovery, supplements and medication. The value is in the interpretation and the adjustments, not the labs.
Whatever your case calls for, not a standard panel. Usually fasting insulin, full thyroid function with antibodies, cortisol across the day, ApoB, inflammation and hormone status, plus GI testing where your history points at the gut: SIBO breath testing, stool analysis and barrier markers.
Not if it is recent and answers the question. Bring your prior results to the consultation and they are reviewed first, because knowing what has already been ruled out changes what is actually worth ordering.
Conditions treated here
Gut Health
Persistent digestive symptoms have a findable mechanism, and food, microbiome and barrier work are built around what your assessment shows.
Hormone Imbalance
Estrogen, testosterone, thyroid, cortisol and insulin work as one system, and reading them together is what separates a partial result from a real one.
Metabolic Disorders
Glucose and HbA1c move last, so we start with fasting insulin and HOMA-IR and find metabolic dysfunction while correcting it is still realistic.
Mood Disorders
Anxiety, low mood and cognitive slowing have measurable physiology behind them, assessed alongside psychiatric care rather than instead of it.
Autoimmune Disease
Barrier integrity, inflammatory load, nutrient status and unresolved infection, addressed alongside your rheumatologist and targeting fewer flares.
Chronic Fatigue
Fatigue is a presentation rather than a diagnosis, so thyroid, mitochondrial, adrenal and nutrient contributors are assessed together.
Ready to start with a clear clinical picture?
Start with the fifteen-minute consultation. No cost, and a straight answer on whether this model fits your case.